Conceding a goal in the opening three minutes had a huge impact on Sampdoria and made Sampdoria's players a little distracted.

After the restart of the game, in the face of Atletico Madrid, which was chasing after the victory, Sampdoria played very passively and made mistakes on the initiative. The players were really hard to accept about conceding a goal at the beginning.

In the middle of the game, many people are probably still thinking about the goal they conceded just now, and they can't focus on the game in progress.

"Danger! Oh——! Diego Costa's shot almost scored again! Sampdoria has been really passive during this time! He Ping exclaimed, and then said fearfully. He's rooting for Sampdoria, so he's nervous right now.

It stands to reason that he should be objective and neutral, but in the case of Gao Zheng, it is difficult for him to do this. So the TV audience can clearly hear his emotional tendencies.

But no fans complained on the Internet that he was biased, everyone was as partial as him.

The Chinese fans who lost the ball sighed and were in a terrible mood. The "miracle" in their hearts has not happened yet, and the cruel reality has poured cold water on them first.

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The home side have been besieging Sampdoria since Atletico Madrid's goal, and Atletico Madrid fans seem to be starting to get used to it. Their team has the upper hand, how to play, and their opponents can only be exhausted by Atletico Madrid's onslaught, and they are highly nervous, not knowing when they will concede again - and Atletico Madrid fans firmly believe that.

So they were very energetic, cheering on the team from the stands in the hope of speeding up the process – if the team can score again in a short period of time, the outcome of this game will be in doubt.

The shouts of the Atletico Madrid fans did put a lot of pressure on the Sampdoria players, and the average person might think that it wasn't just the shouts? What's the big deal?

But it's really hard to appreciate how terrifying this hustle and bustle is without being in it. Every time you touch the ball, every action will attract merciless boos from the opposing fans, and every mistake will be ridiculed by tens of thousands of people in the stands.

That's why there's a saying about "devil's home advantage".

In Atletico Madrid's continuous attack, Sampdoria can only defend with all their might, and there are only a handful of counter-attacking opportunities, and occasionally it is difficult to threaten.

Gao Zheng hasn't gotten the ball from his teammates in front for a while, because they are all tired of defending in the back, and even if they touch the ball, they basically kick forward with a big foot, whether it is to the front court or out of the sideline, anyway, they won't consciously pass the football to Gao Zheng.

When his teammates passed the football forward, Gao Zheng chased after it, but later found that he couldn't catch up, so forget it.

This time, the teammates kicked the football forward again, and Gao Zheng didn't chase it at all.

He turned to Obiang, who was passing the ball to him, and shouted: "Pedro! Steady! Steady! Don't panic!! ”

At the same time, he kept pressing down with his hands, a gesture that everyone could understand, and although he was doing it to Pedro Obiang, he was actually doing it to all his teammates.

When he was done, he patted his chest and shouted to Obiang, "Pass me the ball if you have it!" ”

He saw the problems that the team was encountering now, and if they were allowed to clear the siege like this, they would eventually collapse under Atletico Madrid's continuous attack.

At this time, if he doesn't stand up, he will be the core for nothing.

Gao Zheng made a gesture to his teammates, signaling them to relax and calm down. I am very happy to see Gao Zheng can take the initiative to make such a move in the game, which shows that he is not only the core of the team tactically, but also a real all-round core, Gao Zheng is indeed growing rapidly! To be honest, when the team is in trouble, the core can take the initiative to stand up, comfort teammates, and give confidence to teammates, which is indeed a very morale-boosting thing! He Ping was full of praise for Gao Zheng's performance.

After all, Gao Zheng is now constrained by few opportunities, and there is nothing to boast about in the game itself, so he naturally has to find bright spots from these places.

I don't know what the effect will be if Gao Zheng does this, so I will praise it first.

At the same time, the Spanish commentator naturally noticed Gao Zheng's actions, but he didn't think there was any point in Gao Zheng's actions.

“…… Is Gao asking a teammate to pass the ball to him? Let's not talk about whether the Sampdoria players have the ability to pass the football under the pressure of Atletico Madrid. What if he gets the ball? He's alone, with two people around him at all times, and even if he can stop the ball, he'll be in the encirclement right away. He asked his teammates to pass the ball to him? That would just make it easier for Atletico Madrid to defend...... In fact, from this game, we can see that the Atletico Madrid players fully learned the lessons of the first leg between the two sides, and kept a very strict eye on Gao, cutting off his contact with other Sampdoria players and not giving him any chance. So far, Sampdoria have not been able to create even a single threatening attacking opportunity......"

The Spanish commentator was right,

Atletico Madrid really cut off the connection between Gao Zheng and other teammates, as soon as he got the ball, there were at least two people around him, sometimes three people, and they surrounded Gao Zheng, so that Gao Zheng could not threaten Atletico Madrid's goal at all.

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After the Sampdoria players got Gao Zheng's signal, they did everything they could to pass the football to Gao Zheng.

There aren't many opportunities like that, but there are always times when the ball gets right.

When the football was stopped by Gao Zheng, two Atletico Madrid defenders, Godin and Miranda, had already stuck to Gao Zheng's side, making him unable to turn around.

And they have a clear division of labor, one person sticks to Gao Zheng, pushes with his hands and kicks with his feet, constantly interfering with Gao Zheng and attracting Gao Zheng's attention, and the other person takes advantage of Gao Zheng's entanglement with his teammates, waiting for the opportunity to grab it, making Gao Zheng take care of one thing and lose the other, and it is good to be able to pass the football back to his teammates.

But this time, Gao Zheng's feet were like glue, sticking the football firmly to his feet, and dialing it back and forth made him flash out of space!

Just when the defenders shifted their attention to Gao Zheng's flashing and moving, he suddenly changed his rhythm, flicked the football behind him, and turned around to break through!

But he didn't succeed because just as he was about to finish the turn, Godin, the centre-back who was responsible for defending him closely, reached out and pulled him down.

The Uruguayan centre-back is experienced and very decisive and does not hesitate at all to foul him.

Foul here, even if Sampdoria is given a free kick, it is difficult to threaten the goal of Atletico Madrid, because there are still more than 40 meters away from the goal, if Sampdoria passes the ball directly to the front of the Atletico Madrid goal, Godin believes that with his and Miranda's air defense ability, it will not be a problem to grab the first landing point. And if the opponent's central defender comes up to fight for the top, Atletico Madrid can also take advantage of the situation to play a wave of counterattacks, maybe it will be an opportunity for Atletico Madrid to score.

So it's very cost-effective to foul here, and it's much less risky than hesitating to let Gao Zheng break through with the ball.

And Gao Zheng was not angry or annoyed that his breakthrough was blocked, he quickly got up from the ground and held the football in his hand, regardless of Godin arguing with the referee next to him. After waiting for his teammates to come up, he handed the football to Kostisic.

"Hurry up." He said to Kostisic.

"Okay." Kostisic's expression did not change, and he nodded in agreement.

Then Kostic took the football in his hand and threw it, while Gao Zheng turned and walked forward, looking nothing unusual, as if he wanted to go to the front and wait for the landing point.

Kosticic threw the ball straight to the ground, stomped on it with his foot, and looked back at his teammates who were coming up one after another.

When he turned his head again, he suddenly kicked the football in front of Gao Zheng!

And Gao Zheng, who was walking forward slowly, also rushed out at an accelerated speed and rushed towards the football!

"Free kick quick!"

Fortunately at this time, Godin was experienced, and after the foul, he did not entangle with the referee on the spot, but retreated, and now he was right next to Gao Zheng, so he rushed up with an arrow and wanted to stop Gao Zheng.

In the face of him, Gao Zheng's long legs stretched forward and stabbed the football away first, Godin pounced in the air, but knocked down Gao Zheng.

The referee's whistle sounded again, but instead of asking Sampdoria to take the ball back and retake the free kick, he made a gesture of Godin's foul, and he gave Sampdoria another free kick in front!

And this time, Sampdoria's free-kick penalty location is much closer to Atletico Madrid's goal, and the threat level to the goal is completely different from the previous free kick!